Voyagers Of The Titanic

Author : Richard Davenport-Hines
Publisher : HarperLuxe
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0062107054

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Voyagers of the Titanic LP by Richard Davenport-Hines Pdf

On April 14, 1912, the Titanic, a passenger liner traveling from Southhampton, England, to New York City, struck an iceberg. Its sinking brought the ship—mythological in name and size—into one-hundred years of infamy. Of the 2,240 people aboard the ship, 1,517 perished. While many accounts focus on the technical aspects of the Titanic's sinking, Voyagers of the Titanic follows the stories of the men, women, and children whose lives intersected on its fateful last day. Covering the range of first, second, and third class—from plutocrats and captains of industry to cobblers and tailors looking for a better life in America—Richard Davenport-Hines delves into the fascinating lives of those who ate, drank, dreamed, and died abroad the mythic ship. With magnificent prose, he also explores the politics behind the Titanic's creation, involving larger-than-life figures like J.P. Morgan, the ship's owner, and Lord Pirrie, the ship's builder. The memory of the ship's sinking still remains a part of the American psyche and Voyagers of the Titanic brings that clear night back to us with all of its drama and pathos.

Author : Richard Davenport-Hines
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062100719

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Voyagers of the Titanic by Richard Davenport-Hines Pdf

“An astonishing work.” —Julian Fellowes, Creator and Executive Producer of “Downton Abbey” “A book well worthy of marking the centenary of the crystal-clear night when the immense ship slid to her terrible doom.” —Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a magnificent history of the people intimately connected with the infamous ship—from deal-makers and industry giants, like J.P. Morgan, who built and operated it; to Molly Brown, John Jacob Astor IV, and other glittering aristocrats who occupied its first class cabins; to the men and women traveling below decks hoping to find a better life in America. Commemorating the centennial anniversary of the great disaster, Voyagers of the Titanic offers a fascinating, uniquely original view of one of the most momentous catastrophes of the 20th century.

Author : Richard Davenport-Hines
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007321650

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Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew by Richard Davenport-Hines Pdf

Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, ‘Titanic Lives’ is an utterly compelling exploration of the lives of the passengers and crew on board the most famous ship in history.

Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-04-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780547351261

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SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting Pdf

This tale of an Irish teenager aboard the doomed ship, from a Caldecott Medal winner, is a “taut disaster story . . . nearly impossible to put down” (Publishers Weekly). Fifteen-year-old Barry O’Neill is journeying to New York to reunite with his parents on the maiden voyage of the great ship Titanic. He’s homesick, and worried about the Flynn boys traveling in steerage, who have threatened to throw him overboard. Little does Barry know that a struggle with the Flynns is the least of the dangers that await him. This “fast-paced” and suspenseful young adult adventure story is based on the true and terrible events that occurred as the Titanic sank, and “immerses readers in the many human tragedies” (Booklist).

Author : Ken Rossignol
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : 1475111460

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Titanic 1912 by Ken Rossignol Pdf

The original 1912 news accounts of the Titanic disaster include the first-hand accounts of survivors as told to reporters who met the ship bringing them from where they were saved from lifeboats.The surviving crew describes the crucial moments after the ship hit the iceberg. A crewman testifies just three days after the sinking that the ship had a fire in its coal bunkers from the time it set sail.Teachers across America buy this book citing the original sources detailed that enable them to teach a lesson on the Titanic.

Author : Gareth Russell
Publisher : Atria Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501176739

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The Ship of Dreams by Gareth Russell Pdf

This original and “meticulously researched retelling of history’s most infamous voyage” (Denise Kiernan, New York Times bestselling author) uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity brought to the Western world. “While there are many Titanic books, this is one readers will consider a favorite” (Voyage). In April 1912, six notable people were among those privileged to experience the height of luxury—first class passage on “the ship of dreams,” the RMS Titanic: Lucy Leslie, Countess of Rothes; son of the British Empire Tommy Andrews; American captain of industry John Thayer and his son Jack; Jewish-American immigrant Ida Straus; and American model and movie star Dorothy Gibson. Within a week of setting sail, they were all caught up in the horrifying disaster of the Titanic’s sinking, one of the biggest news stories of the century. Today, we can see their stories and the Titanic’s voyage as the beginning of the end of the established hierarchy of the Edwardian era. Writing in his signature elegant prose and using previously unpublished sources, deck plans, journal entries, and surviving artifacts, Gareth Russell peers through the portholes of these first-class travelers to immerse us in a time of unprecedented change in British and American history. Through their intertwining lives, he examines social, technological, political, and economic forces such as the nuances of the British class system, the explosion of competition in the shipping trade, the birth of the movie industry, the Irish Home Rule Crisis, and the Jewish-American immigrant experience while also recounting their intimate stories of bravery, tragedy, and selflessness. Lavishly illustrated with color and black and white photographs, this is “a beautiful requiem” (The Wall Street Journal) in which “readers get the story of this particular floating Tower of Babel in riveting detail, and with all the wider context they could want” (Christian Science Monitor).

Author : Hugh Brewster
Publisher : Crown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307984715

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Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage by Hugh Brewster Pdf

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage takes us behind the paneled doors of the Titanic’s elegant private suites to present compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers. The Titanic has often been called "An exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian era,” but until now, her story has not been presented as such. In Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage, historian Hugh Brewster seamlessly interweaves personal narratives of the lost liner’s most fascinating people with a haunting account of the fateful maiden crossing. Employing scrupulous research and featuring 100 rarely seen photographs, he accurately depicts the ship’s brief life and tragic denouement and presents compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers: millionaires John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim; President Taft's closest aide, Major Archibald Butt; writer Helen Churchill Candee; the artist Frank Millet; movie actress Dorothy Gibson; the celebrated couturiere Lady Duff Gordon; aristocrat Noelle, the Countess of Rothes; and a host of other travelers. Through them, we gain insight into the arts, politics, culture, and sexual mores of a world both distant and near to our own. And with them, we gather on the Titanic’s sloping deck on that cold, starlit night and observe their all-too-human reactions as the disaster unfolds. More than ever, we ask ourselves, “What would we have done?”

Author : Patrick Stenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:538112812

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Titanic Voyager by Patrick Stenson Pdf

Author : Patrick Stenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Merchant mariners
ISBN : 0857040960

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Titanic Voyager by Patrick Stenson Pdf

"... [This book] is the life story of Charles Herbert Lightoller ... who is best known as the only senior officer to survive the sinjing of Titanic ... However, his good fortune in living through the event thrust him headlong into a new ordeal, that of having to face as the most senior surviving crew-member the exhaustive enquiries and courtroom battles which followed. In this updated and revised edition ... the author reveals startling new evidence relating to the sighting of thye iceberg (refuting the long-held view that negligence on the part of the captain and crew contributed to the collision), evidence that demands re-ebaluation of the official findings. ..."--Book jacket.

Author : Tim Maltin,Eloise Aston
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101558935

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101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic . . . butDidn't! by Tim Maltin,Eloise Aston Pdf

April 15th, 2012, will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. People have an endless fascination with the Titanic, yet much of what they know today is a mixture of fact and fiction. In one hundred and one brief and engaging chapters, Tim Maltin, one of the foremost experts on the Titanic, reveals the truth behind the most common beliefs about the ship and the night it sank. From physics to photographs, lawsuits to love stories, Maltin doesn't miss one tidbit surrounding its history. Heavily researched and filled with detailed descriptions, quotes from survivors, and excerpts from the official inquiries, this book is guaranteed to make readers rethink everything they thought they knew about the legendary ship and its tragic fate.

Author : Violet Jessop
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781461740322

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Titanic Survivor by Violet Jessop Pdf

Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on some of the most famous ocean going vessels of the day. Throughout her 40 year time at sea she survived an unbelievable series of events including the sinking of the TITANIC. “One awful moment of empty, misty blackness enveloped us in its loneliness, then an unforgettable, agonizing cry went up from 1500 despairing throats, a long wail and then silence and our tiny craft tossing about at the mercy of the ice field.” For most people one sinking would be enough. But four years later Violet, now a nurse with the British Red Cross, was on board the World War I hospital ship BRITANNIC when it struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Aegean. To her, this disaster was even more horrifying-- “Just as life seeming nothing but a whirling, choking ache, I rose to the light of day, my nose barely above the little lapping waves. I opened my eyes on an indescribable scene of slaughter, which made me shut them again to keep it out." By the end of her story we have a met a woman who could handle whatever life threw at her with determination and good humor. She knew that only by her own strength of character would she survive. But Titanic Survivor is much more. A unique autobiography for those who want to know how it really felt, a story that could be told only by a Titanic Survivor.

Author : Diane Hoh
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781453248188

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Titanic: The Long Night by Diane Hoh Pdf

DIVTwo teenagers discover true love aboard the doomed ocean liner/div DIVElizabeth Farr never wanted to return to America. During her family’s vacation abroad, she has fallen in love with England, and is despondent when her father refuses to let her stay. Returning to New York means having her debut into society, and that means a swiftly arranged marriage. Elizabeth will never go to college, never learn to be a reporter—as she sees it, her life is over as soon as the Titanic reaches port. Of course, if she’s unlucky, her life will be over far sooner than that./divDIV /divDIVAs Elizabeth and her family settle into their first-class cabins, Katie Hanrahan, a young Irish girl with dreams of finding fortune in America, makes her way to a steerage berth. Both girls have plans for the future, but love and death are about to intervene./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div

Author : Charles Fort
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613106426

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The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort Pdf

"Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you"--Taken from Good Reads website.

Author : Alathia Morgan
Publisher : Infected History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798215416075

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Infected Waters by Alathia Morgan Pdf

Historians believe they know what happened aboard the Titanic on its doomed voyage that cold April night. However, something far more sinister than an iceberg came for all those aboard that White Star Line vessel. As the onboard nurse, Nora Ryan was prepared for the common illnesses, what she faces instead is a virus no modern medicine can name. One passenger is dead, dozens more rapidly becoming infected. But death... is only the beginning. Corpses are rising, eager to sink their teeth into any flesh they can find. Racing against the clock, Nora turns to Gil--a stowaway posing as the baker's assistant--to help her find a way to stop the illness from spreading. The goal is to survive on the ocean liner marked by death. Can the pair fight back the rising tide of infection before it drags them all under?

Author : Sean Price
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781491404218

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Passengers of the Titanic by Sean Price Pdf

Titanic's passengers came from various places and walks of life, but all found themselves together on an ill fated ship. From luxurious staterooms to third class berths, experience what life was like aboard history's most famous ocean liner.